Strawberry Harvest 2020. 

Congrats on your first year of strawberries!!!

I just love watching your videos. Glad you had a good strawberry harvest.

Wow! Much respect for you farmers! 🙌🙏

I love your videos and your farm soooooo much! My dad, brother, and I run a small fruit farm in central Wisconsin and I am putting a strawberry patch in this fall - I am so glad to find you on youtube! I love learning from you and thank you so much!!!

The first year doesn't actually give much product its actually the opposite Strawberries stay up to four years the first is preparing the second year is the most productive year and the years follow At least that's how it is for us

I will let you know how my season goes. I enjoyed your video and love learning with ya.

That works fast

Great video keep it up bro 💯. Yee yee 😎

How love your stuff! Impressive on your first year of strawberries!! I will keep watching your videos! Great job!

I wonder if the trifoliate citrus would work in a greenhouse (heated) high tunnel. I saw some in the greenhouses at Baker Creek last years Spring Harvest festival! I saw lemons and limes but wonder if fig or pomegranate would work since they are easily grown from cuttings. Also, I hope you froze some of those strawberries in 25# food grade tubs for bakery use throughout the year! Great job on your strawberries Farmer Dre and thanks for taking us along!

$6.00 a lb is insane for strawberries. Even at $40 for the 10 lbs flat is insane. Do people have that kind of money to spend in Missouri? I'm a strawberry farmer in Florida and the highest I've sold was $30 for a 12 lb flat and thats the beginning of the season. At the end of the season price do drop in the $7 range for a 12 lb flat. The farmers market we're at are for businesses to buy their produce to sell to their customers, so most of the stuff is in bulks. I've never seen those prices not even in the bigger cities where prices are inflated up. That and also having the same price all season long. Is there any competition at all ? Are there a lot of strawberry farmers in Missouri? I have a lot of questions lol

This kinda makes me happy about my yield. Here in Croatia I had 5200kg (11.5klbs) on 7700 strawberries. And we had some mistakes. Price is $2.7/kg (>$1/lbs).

Great that you got 8k a week . But I'm more curious of what the real profit is after labor cost , operating cost, and plant cost .

Dre, If you think about it and by your own reasoning, the second year you would still be producing a half-pound of strawberries per plant and except for labor, water, and fertilizer, all of the rest would be profit. So it seems to me that you should in fact be replacing all of your strawberries every two years, not every year. Now let me throw in my own experience into the mix. I am only a very small property (1.75 acres) with a very small garden, so nothing anything like the scale that you have on your farm. I planted strawberries two years ago (early spring 2020) for the first time and I was very disappointed in my first year because my strawberry bed hardly produced anything at all. But last year (spring and fall 2021), holy cow, our strawberry bed exploded and I'll just about bet I picked probably close to 15-20 pounds of strawberries from a 4x8 ft double row planted bed. and the only thing I did in the spring was to add compost to the bed. I have decided to move the strawberries this year to another location (long 4 ft. shallow trench pots), completely revitalize the exiting bed and plan out a different crop (still undecided). I am also going to plant out another bed of strawberries this fall after watching your strawberry videos and learning what you have learned. I will come back and let you know how it goes at the end of the season (2022), but I was out there yesterday afternoon and under all of the dead leaves we already see signs of new growth. Another thing I am wondering about is that last year we could have developed the pups, but decided not to. So here is my question, if I had instead decided to develop the pups as they grew from the mother plants and on average we counted 3-4 pups per mother plant, could I have then kept my crop going from year to year rather than having to start a whole new crop? This is only our third year with strawberries so obviously, we still have a lot to learn. Thank you for all of the teaching videos Dre, even though we are in different growing zones, I have still gleaned a lot of helpful information from them. Stay safe, stay healthy, and many Blessings to you and your wonderful family. ~SuzyJC-in-Pataskala-Ohio/USA_03.01.2022~

🇺🇸 Good video 💪🏻

Nice great you had a solid year on growing

Agree. First have the customers.

Strawberries is a quick cash crop

i think this is awesome

Very nice sir.

Getting me one of those badass hats 30$ worth it.

Where exactly in the world are you located at?! How do i find you? Im also in SW missouri and would absolutely love some home grown apples, peaches, strawberries and everything else ive seen you grow.... ive mad several comments but they're all on older video's so i understand the lack of response but its picking season 😢

Why do your strawberry plants look dead? Why not have ones that continuously crop or have a 2nd crop? High value crops seem like a good choice for additional cropping.

What variety of strawberry did you plant? How often did you fertilize. Great job thank you for sharing

did you burn it or spay it (round up)

Why kill the plants? They produce for 5-6yrs. That’s 30k less invested over another 4yrs.

Great video just getting in to growing, what type of fertilizer mix would u recommend

yap! .. i came for the video action

How many people does that farm support?

Where do you buy that quantity of strawberry plants and what kind of price do they charge per plant? we are looking into buying a larger property and are putting together our business plan to get a farm loan.

Everything you do is pretty inspiring for me I like to follow in some of your footsteps do you mind me asking where you got your blueberry bushes from and strawberry plants looking to plant an acre or two here in south Carolina

Yield per acre per year? 8k/ week is clickbait.

Am i not understanding something? How does 28k gross total translate into 8k a week?

Where do you get your plants from? If you don’t mind sharing.

When you open up your strawberries to the public do they mind picking with the plastic? I live in WI and am considering opening a UPick farm but cant decide if I want to use plastic or straw. Do you have any advice?

Can u explain me what is the reason why u burn the filed after the crop? thanks from Italy

Hey man I am having a squirrel issue and was wondering what you do to keep them out of your crops

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where do you buy your bare root strawberry plants from?

How much weeks it takes before u harvest

How many acres did you plant?

I hope that you are banking some cash because farming doesn't always smell like fresh roses and taste as sweet as a fresh picked strawberry.